https://bahua.com/a/AgzS All responses and updates to "Closer to Reason?" Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:28:42 -0600 en-us https://bahua.com/a/AgzS
A columnist at the Post Dispatch wrote favorably about the issue (St Louis also has a 1% E-tax): href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/columnists.nsf/davidnicklaus/story/758473FB5928388D8625726D000F614D?OpenDocument

One point of clarification--the E-tax is paid by residents living in KCMO and by employees working in KCMO regardless of where they work, so locals finding a job outside the city isn't always a time to rejoice (because then I'd be rejoicing, which is ironic since I'd rather work in the city).

Land Tax is an interesting idea, but it's still a tax. I'd like to see a table saying "This is how much in taxes you would pay at a few locations in the metro." There's a total tax out there and the E-tax (or a land tax, etc) may not make living in KCMO more expensive then other places. I don't know if the E-tax's bad rap is deserved.

I need to read more about land tax. There's a piece of the puzzle missing in my understanding.

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Basically everyone they interviewed hadn't seen the details, yet still called it bad. Good job, everyone!

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people have been paying property taxes, including on land, which vary in value, for some time. besides, if you are advocating to paying a different labeled tax to aid your city, how would living in an apartment help? raised rent?

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